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"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them."
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"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
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"Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field."
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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."
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"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
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"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."
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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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"Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk."
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"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
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"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."
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"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."
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"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."
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"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."
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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
Coach

"Coaching really is an individual philosophy."
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"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
Mind

"I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year."
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"I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey."
Career

"I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup."
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"My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with."
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